The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1887-04-08
The Spring Elections.

Rhode Island was treated to political LIANT
slide. The state which has bsen regarded al
reliable Republican for generation has beel
undergoing q change In the past few years
until the old Republican majority Of six O.
eight thousand had shrunk one at the last tive
elections, and twice the Democrats have elected
Congressman in the Second District. Wed.
ncsday this steady and gradual change, together
with an unorganizad bolt led by the Providence
| Journal against Boss Brayton among the Re
| publicans, resulted In the election Of John W
Davis for Governor by majority OF 073. Tht
belt was only against the head OF the Republi
can ticket, but it carries with 1t the success oi
the entire Democratic state ticket, except Secre
tary Of state. Even for this position the Dem.
ccratic candidate Nc Guinness has plurality
but the election goes to tho Legislature which
will seat the republican opponent. The Oem-
ocratc majority for Governor Is the largest OF
all and from that the majorilies range down to
McGuinness plurality. The next Legislature
will contain more than twice as many demo
Gratis as at present, and the republican members,
though still in a majority, will be mostly new
and anti machine men. With possibly three
exceptions all the members OF the Legislature
prominently Implicated in the "May Deal" are
defeated. while in q few cases there Is failure
to elect on the first trial. The prohibtory vote
falls very much below that of last year. The
leaders Of the Republican bolt are promising
now that their work has been done, to turn in
and help make the state Republican next year.
Probably this can be done, though the figures
as whole show that the parties are getting to
be pretty evenly matched, and the state must
DO counted so far as political calculations
can now be made, as among the doubtful
ones.
Michigan Is another state that has cut away
from her old mooripgs, and, after giving nearly
$4,000 plurality for Garfield in 1880, was car
ried by the Fusionists by 4,500 in 1882, again
by 1900 In 1883, was recovered by the Repub-
licans on the small margin Of 5000 in 1884, and
went for the Fusionists by 1000 in 1885, only
to 60 back to the old masters by 7400 last year.
The returns are provcrbially slow from Mich
gan, but it appears that the election for supreme
court judges and regents of the state university
Monday resulted in small Republican plural
ity. The state had prohibition in Its constitu-
ton for a long time, but eleven years ago by
msjority Of 5000 the people voted to put it out.
Ga Monday they voted to keep it out, by
about 10000 majority according to the best .es
Inmates now. The Prohibitonists lay their
defeat to big snow storm the day before cleo
tion which kept their voters away from the
polls.
rbo a1a IN tho urrc Oivn
soma surprising results. In Chicago the ma
iority for Roche, the Republican candidate for
mayor, Is estimated at something like 80
thousand. Carter Harrison, after Withdrawing
from the Democratic ticket, undertook |
20 throw the party to the support of
he bummers and gamblers who have consti-
uted the Harrison guard, worked the scheme
Vigorously. But the great body OF Democratic
'oters turned in and supported the whole of the
Republican ticket. The socialists and their
lilies derived majorities In only two of the Is
Yards, and they elected only one member Of
be council. The boast of the anarchists that
hey would overthrow the bench as result OF
bis election and secure the liberation of the
Iaymarket square rioters, has proved an
mpty bomb, because the coed citizenship of
be city was massed soldly against it. Mr.
'elson, the labor candidate, protested that he
,as in favor of recognizing all the rights OF
roperty, but he was hampered with the sup.
ort of the socialists and OF the anarchists,
hose orators in their speeches uttered the
lost radical sentiments, and he fell because OF
le character Of part Of his support. The
ew may or, Roche, will enter upon policy of ,
rict repression of all red flag parades and vi |
lent harangues. The workingmen have been
their small vote with the big vote
se where, and are quite capable OF reading {
nd writing on the wall. "We must get rid of {
le anarchists and socialists at any cost" {
led one OF the union leaders at meeting
uesday night.
In Cincinnati the Republican candidate for ,
ayor is elected by only COO plurality oyer q
ephenson the labor nominee. rhe vote was r
,out $4,000 Republican, 1900 To- '
,r and IL 600 Democratic. The rascslly work /
the municipal leaders Of the old parties, es-
cially the Democrats, has had the natural ef- y
ct OF swelling the vote, as it did in New York, !
r a new movement which promises to "smash 2
ings." Mr. Stevenson, the Labor candidate, n
n far ahead of bis ticket. He is a journey y
an bricklay or by trade and said to be sensi- 4,
G decent man. The party in Cincinnati took &
ry conservative grounds. They refused to "
press any sympathy with socialism or with II II
y other ism. After the Chicago bomb throw b.
!, last year the Cincinnati anarchists presum- b'
to take the head Of the procession upon an
rasion when all the trades were to turn out
public celebration. When the little knot CT v
archists walked mp to the front behind the II
rcd flag, the labor unions OF Cincin- nc
j took vote right on tie spot and refused
march behind the red flag, and from that day
labor party in the city has held to that po- be
or, and shown itself entirely worthy of the IN
port of good citzsns. In Cleveland and ni
umbus the Democratic gains were eXcep- WI
lal. In the former city the Democratic ma ye
~ is 5000, gain OF 6O00 over two years
in spite of the Republican redistricting OF ~
city. In Toledo and other cities the Demo- -.
IS make heavy gains, while the result Of the Az
o voting shows that IL the Democrats can
] their gains on national and state is
} the state is lost to the Republicans.
a Wisconsin there was state election for
or Offices bu: of no particular significance '
,use no contest was made. The Democrats n,
Republicans fused in Milwaukee in opposi- On,
TO the labor ticket. s
S whcle and out of all this confusion Of he,
Its, the Indications are Of n disintegration fee